Fri Apr 11, 7:30pm
CyberView from the Hill - Last Week CyberView from the Hill
Late Changes
Late Changes Reddy out Auva'a starts at center. A.Johnston and Picker 18th and 19th men
WIN 18-2
South Sydney grabbed their third win of the season tonight against the Penrith Panthers by 18-2, with Nathan Merritt celebrating with his Club-record 145th try. Merritt broke two milestones on the night, firstly surpassing Bob McCarthy’s 211 first grade game record (broken last week by John Sutton, while Sutton extended his tally to 213), but also breaking an 81 year try-scoring record held by another Club legend in the form of legendary Test winger, Benny Wearing. Merritt is now the most prolific Rabbitohs try-scorer in the Club’s history. Mere minutes before kick-off, the heavens opened up with a torrential down-pour to completely change the dynamic of the game. But while ball-handling was compromised by the conditions, the Rabbitohs’ defence was not – managing to make only a handful of missed tackles during the entirety of the match. After some promising attacking play from the Panthers in the opening minutes, two penalties to the Rabbitohs allowed them to charge up-field, with Reynolds opting to kick for goal on the second occasion to give Souths a two nil lead. A Panthers bomb was split by Bryson Goodwin on the 10 metre line, allowing the Panthers an opportunity to post their first points of the game in the slippery conditions. But the Rabbitohs managed to repel four repeat sets on the back of the mistake with some great scramble defence. But the pressure wasn’t over for the red and greens, with a number of mistakes on their own line giving the Panthers more opportunity to score within 20 metres of the line. But the defence held strong in the trying weather conditions. The Panthers continued to throw everything at the Rabbitohs despite the rock-solid defensive effort, but with their attack providing nothing in the way of points, a penalty within kicking distance posed the perfect opportunity for Jamie Soward to kick a penalty-goal to level things up going into the break. On the resumption, it didn’t take long for debutant centre Kirsome Auva’a to grab a four-pointer on debut out wide. But as special as Auva’a’s try was, the next one had a touch of history, with Nathan Merritt finally breaking through for a four-pointer to break the Club’s all-time try-scoring record with 145 tries. Adam Reynolds converted from the touch-line to make it 12-2 in the Rabbitohs’ favour. The Rabbitohs defence continued to hold strong until the 63rd minute of the match – amazingly, it was at this point that the red and greens missed their first tackle of the match. The men in red and green looked to score again with just under 10 minutes in the game remaining, with another recent debutant in the form of back-rower Kyle Turner crossing the line for the first time in his career to extend Souths’ lead, but not before going upstairs to the video referee – a possible off-side nearly robbing the young Rabbitoh of the four-pointer. Adam Reynolds converted to make it 18-2 to finish the game.
6 min 2-0
30 min 2-2
43 min 6-2
54 min 12-2
70 min 18-2
Auva'a, Merritt, Turner tries
Reynolds 3 from 4 goals
Referee A.Klien / A.Gee
Crowd 11,674
Penalities 9-11
Scrums 9-6
Min Tac Pe MT LB HU DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG
Flbk Inglis 80 1 - - - 13 - 103 - 1 - 1 - - -
LWng Goodwin 80 5 - 1 - 8 - 80 2 - 2 - - - -
LCnt Auva'a 80 10 1 - 1 10 - 88 1 - - - 1 - -
RCnt Walker 80 17 - - - 7 1 36 1 - 1 1 - - -
RWng Merritt 80 6 - - 1 6 1 25 - 2 - - 1 - -
5/8 Sutton 80 16 1 - - 8 - 61 - 1 7 - - - -
Half Reynolds 80 19 1 - - - - - - - 6 - - 3/4 -
Prop Tyrrell 32 25 1 - - 7 - 43 - - - - - - -
Hook Koroisau 39 30 - 1 - 5 5 44 1 - 1 - - - -
Prop Burgess.G 49 33 1 - - 11 - 86 1 - - - - - -
SRow Turner 42 23 1 - - 4 - 32 - - - - 1 - -
SRow Teo 80 49 1 - - 12 - 80 1 1 - - - - -
Lock Burgess.S 75 41 1 1 - 21 - 152 1 2 - - - - -
Int McInnes 41 19 - - - 4 3 22 1 - 1 - - - -
Int McQueen 48 13 1 - - 7 - 68 1 - - - - - -
Int Clark 38 23 - - - 8 - 56 - - - - - - -
Int Burgess.L 36 18 1 1 - 12 - 93 1 - - - - - -
TOTAL 348 9 4 2 1069 11 7 18 2 3 3/4 -
Completion Rate 28 / 37 76%
Opposition Offloads 6
Effective 1st Tackles
1 min 81m Koroisau kick 31m / SS P (Tyrrell) 58m / SS P (G Burgess)
6 min 0m Pe Err SCR / P / P GOAL
7 min 35m Sutton kick COF
10 min 33m P / SS Err (GBurgess)
11 min 40m P / SS Err (Koroisau)
13 min 99m SS Err (Goodwin) SCR
15 min 65m DO
16 min 91m DO 63m / SS P (SBurgess)
19 min 87m SS Err (Teo) SCR 70m / 6TG (Goodwin) SCR
21 min 94m Pe Err SCR SS Err (Auva'a) SCR 98m / SS P (Sutton)
25 min 17m Pe Err SCR / Sutton kick
26 min 94m Sutton kick COF 33m / SS P (GBurgess) 69m / SS P (Reynolds) 78m / SS P (Turner)
30 min 100m DO OOF SS P (Reynolds) (Pe GOAL)
33 min 18m Reynolds kick
35 min 23m Sutton kick
37 min 41m Pe Err SCR / SS Err (LBurgess)
39 min 10m Pe Err SCR / P / SS Err (Walker)
half time
40 min 22m Sutton kick Goodwin kick
42 min 0m Pe Err / Reynolds kick CIG
43 min 0m P / TRY
46 min 40m McInnes kick COF
48 min 0m Pe Err SCR / Walker kick CIG
50 min 3m Sutton kick
51 min 23m Sutton kick
54 min 0m P / TRY
58 min 11m P / Reynolds kick COF
60 min 62m SS Err (SBurgess) SCR
62 min 70m DO
63 min 92m DO 70m / SS P (Sutton)
66 min 80m Pe Err SCR / SS Err (McInnes)
70 min 0m Pe Err / Reynolds kick TRY
72 min 68m Reynolds kick COF 15m / SS P (Teo)
75 min 56m DO
76 min 61m DO
77 min 63m DO
79 min 52m Pe Err SCR / SS P (Inglis)
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 45.3m - for the whole match
- 54.6m - 1st half
- 37.0m - 2nd half
If you now remove the tries
- 54.6m - 1st half
- 43.9m - 2nd half
Other Round 6 Matches
12-8 Robi Gold Coast b Brisbane
26-12 Bruc Newcastle b Canberra
14-12 Parr Parramatta b Sydney
16-4 Camp Wests-Tig b Nth Qld
21-20 Eden Canterbury b Warriors
24-4 Brok Manly b Cronulla
28-24 MRSt Melbourne b St Geo-Ill
W D L Diff PT
GOLD COAST 5 - 1 -5 10
CANTERBURY 4 - 2 +60 8
WESTS-TIGERS 4 - 2 +23 8
MANLY 4 - 2 +14 8
PARRAMATTA 4 - 2 -11 8
MELBOURNE 4 - 2 -16 8
SOUTHS 3 - 3 +33 6
BRISBANE 3 - 3 +11 6
St Geo-Ill 3 - 3 +1 6
Penrith 3 - 3 -3 6
Sydney 2 - 4 +25 4
Nth Qld 2 - 4 +14 4
Newcastle 2 - 4 -18 4
Canberra 2 - 4 -20 4
Warriors 2 - 4 -43 4
Cronulla 1 - 5 -65 2
Judiciary News
Adam Reynolds was placed on report for a chicken wing tackle. After the MRC review Adam has been charged with a grade one dangerous contact – unnecessary arm/shoulder pressure charge for an incident in the 28th minute of the match. The charge carries a base of 100 points. Adam has taken the early guilty plea, and will escape suspension with 75 points carry over points.
George Burgess has been charged by the MRC with a grade one tripping charge for an incident in the second minute of the match. The change carries a base penality of 75 points but George has 20% loading for a non-similar offence plus 52 carry over points. Thats a total charge of 142 points. George will miss one match as he has taken then the early guilty plea with 19 carryover points.
Ben Te’o has been charged with a grade one tripping charge for an incident in the 74th minute of the match. The charge carries a base penalty of 75 points but Ben has 20% loading for a non-similar offence plus 57 carryover points. That's a total charge of 147 points. Te’o will miss one match as he has taken the an early guilty plea with 24 carry-over points.
NYC Cup Round 6
5:15pm
LOSS 10-26
Late Changes Late Changes Kavangh out Brad Wall starts at hooker and Garlick on the bench The Rabbitohs’ under 20’s side have gone down to the Penrith Panthers in round six of the NYC Premiership by 26-10. The night didn’t start well for the red and greens, at one stage trailing the home-side by 22 points in the first half. It didn’t take long for first points to be scored, with Brendan Attwood crossing right next to the sticks inside the first couple of minutes of the match. Bryce Cartwright converted to give the Panthers an early six point lead. A final tackle, short-side play from the Panthers yielded their second of the evening, this time Cartwright bagging the four-pointer himself to make it 10-0 half-way through the first period. Despite two promising attacking raids on the Penrith line, the Rabbitohs came up short on both occasions, with poor ball-handling undoing the good lead-up work. With six minutes in the first half remaining, the Panthers mounted another attacking raid on the Rabbitohs line with winger Joshua Jay finishing off a movement to cross in the corner before Cartwright grabbed his second of the evening in similar fashion. Corey Harawira converted on both occasions to make it 22-0 in the home-sides favour going into the sheds. It took 65 minutes for the Rabbitohs to finally get on the board, with winger Sam Young breaking the Panthers’ defence for the first time to cross right next to the sticks. Irae Simone converted to make it 22-6. The red and greens continued to attack the Panthers line, but again it was ball-control that undid Souths’ effort on a number of occasions before a rampaging Tulsa Saumamao raced 30 metres – taking Panthers along for the ride – to score out wide to bring the score to a more respectable 22-10. With the Panthers yet to score in the second half, the Rabbitohs had all the momentum, but Penrith’s Brendan Attwood had other ideas, racing over for his second try of the evening to make it 26-10 to round out the match.
2 min 0-6
19 min 0-10
34 min 0-16
39 min 0-22
55 min 6-22
67 min 10-22
74 min 10-26
Young, Saumamoa try
Simone 1 from 2 goals
Other U20 Matches
34-18 Robi Brisbane b Gold Coast
48-28 Bruc Newcastle b Canberra
46-34 Parr Sydney b Parramatta
38-24 Camp Wests-Tig b Nth Qld
58-20 Eden Warriors b Canterbury
36-32 Brok Manly b Cronulla
24-8 MRSt Melbourne b St Geo-Ill
W D L Diff PT
NEWCASTLE 6 - - +150 12
ST GEO-ILL 5 - 1 +104 10
PARRAMATTA 4 - 2 +46 8
SYDNEY 4 - 2 +42 8
WESTS-TIGERS 4 - 2 +42 8
BRISBANE 4 - 2 +34 8
WARRIORS 3 - 3 +22 6
CRONULLA 3 - 3 -18 6
Melbourne 3 - 3 -42 6
Penrith 2 - 4 -12 4
Souths 2 - 4 -46 4
Canberra 2 - 4 -46 4
Nth Qld 2 - 4 -66 4
Manly 2 - 4 -66 4
Canterbury 1 - 5 -74 2
Gold Coast 1 - 5 -70 2
Club Championship
W D L Diff PT
NEWCASTLE 8 - 4 +132 16
St Geo-Ill 8 - 4 +105 16
Wests-Tigers 8 - 4 +65 16
Parramatta 8 - 4 +35 16
Brisbane 7 - 5 +45 14
Melbourne 7 - 5 -58 14
Sydney 6 - 6 +67 12
Manly 6 - 6 -49 12
Gold Coast 6 - 6 -73 12
Souths 5 - 7 -13 10
Canterbury 5 - 7 -14 10
Penrith 5 - 7 -25 10
Nth Qld 5 - 7 -49 10
Warriors 4 - 8 -29 8
Canberra 4 - 8 -66 8
Cronulla 4 - 8 -83 8
NSW Cup Round 6
v Wyong, NSO Sun Apr 12 3:00pm
L0SS 12-22
Late changes Morgan, Auva'a, Low and Williams were out. A.Johnston started at fullback, Evans at center, Aldridge at hooker, Hyland at prop, Picker at second row, Lowe at lock. South Areaiiti Roberts dropped back to the bench. Even the assistance of Souths Lote Tuqiri wasn’t enough to help North Sydney over the line against the Wyong Roos, in the Bears first VB NSW Cup home match of the season on Saturday. The 11th placed Bears went down 22-12 to the eighth placed Roos, with Brad Lupi and Alex Johnston the tryscorers for the red and black. Kurt Aldridge added four points with his two goals, but it wasn’t enough for the victory over a strong Wyong outfit. Wyong led 12-6 at half-time and, despite some close play, it was the visitors who were first to cross in the second-half, pushing the score out to an 18-6 advantage. With five to go the Bears were still fighting, and closed the gap to 18-12, but a 60m runaway effort to the Roos left the home side with little to cheer about. There were plenty of familiar faces at North Sydney Oval for the match, with a good contingent of the Roos having pulled on the red-and-black at some stage in their careers. Mark O’Meley, Darren Nicholls, Brock Molan, Shaune Corrigan and Jay Florimo are all ex-Bears, but they weren't feeling any nostalgia on Saturday. Nicholls crossed twice against his old club, with his new team mates Dale Clacherty and Sam Bernstrom also scoring four-pointers. But it was Nicholls who made sure that his side left Bear Park as winners, kicking three goals to put the game to bed at 22-12. The Bears have had a slow start to the season, winning just one from five. After the opening 34-6 win against the Roos, and a bye in round two, Norths have struggled for form and cohesion.
Curtis Johnston was charged with a Grade 1 dangerous throw, and later in the game also charged with a Grade 2 striking charge. He has taken the early guilty plea for both and will miss 2 games with 61 carry over points.
2 min 0-6
15 min 0-12
24 min 6-12
50 min 6-18
75 min 12-18
79 min 12-22
A.Johnston, Lupi tries
Aldridge 1 from 1, Evans 1 from 1 goals
Other NSW Cup Matches
50-30 Bruc Mt Prtchrd b Newcastle
30-22 Hens Newtown b Wntwrthvll
22-14 Penr Penrith b Wests-Tig
18-14 Eden Warriors b Canterbury
38-10 Brok Cronulla b Manly
W D L B Diff PT
MT PRITCHARD 5 - 1 - +104 10
ILLAWARRA 3 1 1 1 +30 9
PENRITH 4 - 2 - +40 8
WENTWORTHVILLE 4 - 2 - +24 8
WESTS-TIGERS 4 - 2 - +21 8
NEWCASTLE 3 - 2 1 -11 8
WARRIORS 2 1 2 1 +22 7
WYONG 3 - 3 - -12 6
Cronulla 3 - 3 - -13 6
Newtown 1 1 3 1 -72 5
Norths 1 - 4 1 -44 4
Canterbury 1 1 4 - -14 3
Manly - - 5 1 -93 2
NSWRL U18 SG Ball Rd9
v Wests, Camp, Sat Apr 11 1:45pm
WIN 46-20
J.Brown 2, S.Talakai 2, L.Coleman, J.Tufuga, J.Ellison, J.Leotafulmanu, J.Gallagher tries
S.Talakai 5 goals
Other U18 Matches
28-20 SMry Parramatta b W Syd Acad
18-6 Koga St George b West Coast
42-28 Hens Sydney b Manly
50-4 Penr Penrith b Cronulla
24-12 Lake Newcastle b Melbourne
30-0 Leic Balmain b Illawarra
20-20 Belm Canterbury d C Coast
40-10 NSO Canberra b Norths
W D L Diff PT
PARRAMATTA 8 - 1 +98 16
PENRITH 7 1 1 +129 15
SYDNEY 7 - 2 +224 14
SOUTHS 7 - 2 +78 14
BALMAIN 7 - 2 +35 14
CANBERRA 6 1 2 +162 13
NEWCASTLE 5 1 3 +33 11
MELBOURNE 5 - 4 +85 10
Illawarra 5 - 4 +32 10
Cronulla 4 1 4 -58 9
Central Coast 2 4 3 -36 8
W Syd Academy 3 2 4 -74 8
Wests 3 1 5 -36 7
Manly 2 - 7 -87 4
Norths 1 1 7 -134 3
St George 1 1 7 -152 3
Canterbury - 2 7 -125 2
West Coast - 1 8 -178 1
NSWRL U16 Matthews Rd9
v Wests, 12:00pm
WIN 22-12
30 min 12-12
K.Preece, C.Murray, R.Townsend, H.Siriahfulmaono tries
M.Hiroti 2, D.Hawkins goals
Other U16 Matches
23-22 SMry W Syd Acad b Parramatta
28-18 Koga St George b SW Syd Acad
20-4 Hens Manly b Sydney
18-14 Penr Penrith b Cronulla
68-0 Lake Newcastle b Melbourne
58-0 Leic Balmain b Illawarra
56-0 Belm Canterbury b C Coast
32-4 NSO Canberra b Norths
W D L Diff PT
NEWCASTLE 8 - 1 +250 16
BALMAIN 7 1 1 +249 15
PENRITH 7 1 1 +152 15
CANBERRA 7 - 2 +168 14
SOUTHS 6 - 3 +78 12
MANLY 6 - 3 +62 12
CANTERBURY 4 2 3 +118 10
SYDNEY 4 2 3 +87 10
Parramatta 5 - 4 +49 10
Cronulla 5 - 4 +44 10
W Syd Academy 4 - 5 -3 8
Wests 4 - 5 -24 8
St George 3 - 6 -66 6
Illawarra 3 - 6 -131 6
SW Syd Academy 2 - 7 -158 4
Central Coast 2 - 7 -225 4
Melbourne 1 - 8 -278 2
Norths - - 9 -346 -